Here's what I know about the situation, without all the speculation of impending doom...
Orgs like NYSE & United rely on specialized tech to handle their enormous data processing/storage needs
They're not in a little computer lab or some shit, they own one or more supercomputers
These are built with many layers of redundancies to avoid something like THIS happening...
Configuration issues (which NYSE says caused the halt in trading) actually occur frequently.
Config errors are monitored & dealt with. There are engineers onsite plus oncall specialists to manage it
Same with 'router failure' causing 'issues with connectivity' for United Airlines.
They don't just kick over their router by accident, a cord falls out, and WHOOPS
Passing this off as 'just some glitches' is disingenuous...
Glitches happen all the time & the system has all these built-in redundancies so having to down it during business hours is almost never in the realm of possibility
Hush said it best in the other thread...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hush
This is not two birds taking a shit on the same day
This is two bird shits hitting both ur eyelids same time same moment
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